Solution: City that inspired a palace in "Aladdin" - NYT Crossword

Like other epics, “Aladdin” has a sprawling and contested history; apparently it was not one of Scheherezade’s original tales at all, nor did it necessarily take place in the Middle East, and the protagonist might have originally been a Chinese peasant. The 1992 Disney version, though, was definitely set in a city named Agrabah, which drew influence from AGRA and its amazing palace, the Taj Mahal. To be frank with you, researching this topic was surprisingly confusing, but I must refer to this 2015 poll, in light of 1A. Apparently, at one time, there were plenty of people in the actual United States perfectly willing and eager to drop bombs on Agrabah, that fictional city.